• The Cardboard Box
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Back up to the mid 1800's goods were very often damaged in transport due to poor care and often no tethering at all the the transportation medium. Good had to be carried on horses and shit and thing often arrived broken. Luckily though sometime around the 1900's a marvelous invention was made [img]http://bartik.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/cardboardbox.jpg[/img] The cardboard box. The boxes allowed goods to be transported safely and easily across far distances without the previously common breakage and damage. The cardboard material is also very economic, making boxes cost only cents and save up to thousands in damage costs. So by now you'll probably thinking, so matey9, why the hell do I need a cardboard box when I can simply melt gold around the object and protect it that way. Well there are a number of reasons a box of cardboard is far superior. 1)Perfect corners, a problem with metal is often that many people die in the process of a perfect molding of a corner, and it can cost thousand's of dollars*. A cardboard box always comes with nice corners and there are extremely few causalities in the manufacturing process. 2)Superior color, Do you know how many shipping trucks crash a year? Far too many due to the shiny gold coating of some packages, the reflections blind drivers all too often, causing damge to both your and many other packages. 3)Dead-elephant guarantee, all the time when people thought they were receiving a package in gold they melt down the metal to find nothing but the rotting corpse of a dead elephant, there have been no recorded incidents of this with the cardboard box. *claim based on 1600's manufacturing process. For all these reasons you should [b]always[/b] use a cardboard box for all delivery needs.
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did anyone else make forts out of cardboard boxes as a kid
Great thread, here's a box!
i learned something today
[QUOTE=matey9;18177238] The boxes allowed goods to be transported safely and easily across far distances without the previously common breakage and damage.[/QUOTE] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foam_peanut][img]http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/usflexicon/images/thumb/f/fb/Foam_Peanuts.jpg/300px-Foam_Peanuts.jpg[/img] These are, in my opinion, more important to me.[/url]
give me boxes
Why are boxes dumb according to FP? :confused:
I use boxes for forts. It's great.
I built you a box fort to celebrate. Hope you enjoy it. [img]http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/4159/boxfort.jpg[/img]
Cardboard Boxes, you say? [img]http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/586461/mannco_box_final.png[/img]
4) Solid Snake uses one goddammit. [img]http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/7053/boxietf3.jpg[/img]
20+ boxes in 5 minutes, I like where this thread is going.
I poop in cardboard boxes.
[QUOTE=FartingDog;18177370]I poop in cardboard boxes.[/QUOTE] Zoidberg wishes he was privileged enough to live in such a fine example of modern engineering as a cardboard box.
So when boxes are shipped to people who need boxes so that they can ship things, are they shipped in boxes?
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[QUOTE=shadow_oap;18177447]So when boxes are shipped to people who need boxes so that they can ship things, are they shipped in boxes?[/QUOTE] Of course, what else could get such an important job done?
[QUOTE=Kai-ryuu;18177278][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foam_peanut][img]http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/usflexicon/images/thumb/f/fb/Foam_Peanuts.jpg/300px-Foam_Peanuts.jpg[/img] These are, in my opinion, more important to me.[/url][/QUOTE] How dare you let some ugly bland pieces of Styrofoam ruin the divine elegance of the cardboard box. That's like editing the Mona Lisa with ms-paint.
Thread was obviously made to collect boxes.
[QUOTE=Roddy;18177279]give me boxes[/QUOTE] or give me death
[QUOTE=Tahrok;18177843]Thread was obviously made to collect boxes.[/QUOTE] Of course it was, who wouldn't want to collect these beautiful specimen? I mean look at this mother fucker: [img]http://thenonconsumeradvocate.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/cardboard-box-open-lg.jpg[/img] LOOK AT IT
I'll never look at boxes the same way again
I sent 1000 empty boxes to my computer teacher Freshman year. We built a sweet sculpture. [img]http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/99563/Farmer%27s%20Tower.jpg[/img] But it's a federal offence to send things in the mail with your teachers name or something and I almost got Deported.
Too bad the creator died of hemophilia via paper cut.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1dDzTKFhN0[/media] *sigh*
I used boxes as supports and entrances for blanket forts. I wish I was a kid again :(
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;18180424]I used boxes as supports and entrances for blanket forts. I wish I was a kid again :([/QUOTE] Boxes are great. I turned a kleenix box and a paper towel tube into a guitar.
[img]http://imgur.com/iVXpK.png[/img] [img]http://imgur.com/KtjPY.png[/img] [b]Boxes are a seriously great invention that needs to always be cherished![/b] [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Giant text shouting at us in red" - verynicelady))[/highlight]
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